Pattern
It is not only a high camera angle over your subjects
that
tends to emphasize their pattern representing harmony
and order,
but also filling up the picture area`s frame with
the repeating
shapes, colors and forms photographed from any camera
angle and
level, could be used by you as a good device for a
compositional
arrangement that will allow you to strengthen a single
theme or
motive as in these two photographs. Nature and every
day scenes
that surround us are full of patterns that could be
photographed
by you, nevertheless and often, it is your camera's
position
tilted at a certain angle, that allows you to see,
incorporate in
your composition, transfer on film, and capture, even
a randomly
arranged at first glance, array of elements of your
subject into
certain patterns that look pleasing and attractive
to the eye.
Thus, a repetition of shapes, spots, forms and lines
in a
pattern, as well as the uniformity in color, not only
can add
interest to your photo-subject, but also unite some
or all of the
elements in the picture. Here, similar shapes and
colors of the
flowers make up a pattern into which they are arranged
by a high
camera position. Creating order out of confusion,
pattern
sometimes could be a product of a strong and contrasting
lighting
falling across a textured surface, or as it is in
the photo of
the marble-made fruits in the fruit-basket, or the
Easter-eggs,
where the color and shape repetition, responding best
to the flat
lighting condition, forces the viewer of your picture
to compare
and unite different colors and shapes into types and
groups.
Using a dark background for an array of repeated light
subjects
and vice-versa, rewards you by emphasizing the pattern
too, as it
is in the picture of the tulips.
